best Britney Spears songs (A-Z) ↓↓↓

Britney Spears info & bio

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she has had a significant cultural impact on music in the 21st century, having been recognized as one of the first musicians credited with reviving the teen pop genre. Spears is one of the best-selling music artists in history, having sold over 150 million records worldwide.

Born in McComb, Mississippi, Spears began her professional career in 1992 as a cast member for the Ruthless! musical and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club television series before signing with Jive Records in 1997. She debuted with the best-selling albums ...Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000). The former's title track charted at number one in the US. In 2001, Spears released the Britney album and made her film debut in Longshot before starring in Crossroads the following year. She next released In the Zone during 2003. Her 2007 album Blackout, which Spears executive produced, earned her the greatest acclaim as a solo artist.

Facing lifelong public scrutiny and struggles with her mental health by the late 2000s, Spears was placed under a controversial conservatorship in 2008, during which she recorded Circus that year along with Femme Fatale (2011) for Jive, and then Britney Jean (2013) as well as Glory (2016), for RCA Records. In 2019, Spears withdrew from regular concert touring to focus on her conservatorship case, leading to the #FreeBritney movement and the release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears (2021). The conservatorship was dissolved in 2021 after she publicly testified against her management team and family of abuse. Her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.

By the early 2020s, she had performed or co-performed on more than two dozen US Top 40 songs, including the number-ones "Womanizer" (2008), "3" (2009), and "Hold It Against Me" (2011). She is the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, as well as the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s. She was listed as the world's highest-paid female musician in 2001 and 2012 by Forbes. Spears received numerous industry awards including one Grammy Award, fifteen Guinness World Records, six MTV Video Music Awards, and seven Billboard Music Awards (including the Millennium Award). Spears has launched numerous products, with her 2005 fragrance Fantasy with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. generating over $1.5 billion in sales by 2011.